A World Without You
Janus comes to me
and says
“Build a world
a world of anything
you wish to be in it.
Just not him.”
Janus sets me in a glass box
and tells me to imagine it,
my world without You.
So i start to.
i Imagine rows and rows
of tulips
daffodils
rosebuds
and daisies.
Endless rows
of my favorite flowers
and i Imagine a river
flowing the field
with a weeping willow,
it’s branches dangling over the water.
i Imagine herds of horses
and skies with fluffy clouds
and rays of light.
i Imagine that it’s not too hot
not too cold.
Just over the weeping willow
it sprinkles little raindrops.
Then i Imagine Janus
standing in the middle.
Janus smiles
that perfect
deadly
smile
and opens his arms.
Janus welcomes me.
Invites me into his embrace.
i Imagine a fire starting.
It spreads across the field
burning the flowers
the weeping willow,
polluting the river with ash
and turning the sky red.
It burns Janus.
Kills Janus.
I kill Janus.
Why would I
burn Paradise?
How could I?
how-
No.
Paradise
wasn't Paradise
without you.
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